The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
NEWS FROM LowNDEsvILLE.
The Home Of Gabriel's Trumpet and
Cheap WatermelOns-..Visit Co
ing and Coming--.Capt. J. w. LO-
max Back from Georgia.
I,oWNDEsyILLE, Jul,

IowN DEsvILLE July 30. 1887.
We are now having rain upon rain. Thurs.
day night, yesterday and last night we had y
egular old. fashioned Northeast wind and
rain. The rain has been more general and
more OF a groun than any we have
had for some time.
Some of the planters must be somewhat un.
easy about their lowland corn. savannah
River was past crossing yesterday morning.
Mrs. o. Witter and Master Robert Witter
eft last Thursday 10 take charge or the hoe,
It Pelzer Capt. Witter will remain here and
run the Latimer House till the end OF the
year.
Miss jamie Lomax, who has snent several "a,
months In Columbia and Augusta, returne:'
home near here few days ago.
Miss Anuie Baker ~ again at her grand
moi hers to spend some time.
In town every Wednesday night and have q
SINGING interspersed with considerable talk.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Franks returned from
| visit to relatives in Edgetield last Wednesday:
the last three weeks at Williamson and An
derson Court House, came back Saturday.
Mrs. J. q. Donald went to her old home In
Hartwnll last Thursday to spend some time.
Miss Kate Lnmax went to Anderson ronrt
House on Thursday to spend month with
Mrs. LOckldnd.
To-day is the appointed time for the third
Quarterly Conference at this station hui
from the way the rain is now falling Q0 O'CLOCK
\. NJ there will he none.
Col. Jas. w. I,omax. who has been qnite
feeble for the past few mon this, iS now at DR..
VIM. Taggart's tC stay short while.
The Methodists here have raised nearly
money enough To buy them new organ:
which they propose 10 do at once. The old
nne, still good instrument, is for sale cheap
Dr. A. ]. SpPer has two patches nf Irish pn-
| ,aioes planted at the same time. One of them
has borne heavy crop and the vines have
died down. The other has had no nOtaioes,
and the vines are perfectly green. who can
Mrs -. Kjnonas =, C through the A.
1anta Constitution says that she has most
valuable and unique novelty III the vegetable
line called the "vegetahle peach" that grows
on q vine of n beautiful golden color, like an
orange in shape and color. and most excel
lent for preserves. The vegetahls and fruit
kingdom are becoming so mixed, that ere
long 1t will be impossible to tell "tother from
which"
MrI. Fl McCalla a short while hack. pulled
cne hundred and twenty watermelons from
his patch one day, and several of them
weighed seventy five pounds.
Watermelons are now nlentiful and cheap.
country boys went into the wrong patch
Through mistake" q few days ago. and their
halt cost them five dollars each. Strange, Is
It. not, that so many people can ana 90 20
ensily discriminate between meum anu truni
where corn, cotton, &C., are concerned, but
cannot see the difference when 1t comes 10
wntermelons: but few such eye.openers or
rather rpocket-bools-openers, will perhaps es.
tahlish the ownership to even this luscious
fruit.
Mr. ]. @. Donald has erected at his stove
and tin store ms sign mammoth TIN norm
flrst-class fuIl-grown "toot" from It. would
awaken the natives for miles around, and
CT ~ Tue "ef"'"'"k u ''' ''''' D TROUPE.